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  The Miracle of the Black Leg -...

  Patricia J. Williams

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  Beginning with a jaw-dropping rumination on a centuries-old painting featuring a white man with a Black man's leg surgically attached (with the expired Black leg-donor in the foreground), contracts law scholar and celebrated journalist Patricia J. Williams uses the lens of the law to take on core questions of identity, ethics, and race. 
   
   
   
  With her trademark elegant prose and critical legal studies wisdom, Williams brings to bear a keen analytic eye and a lawyer's training to chapters exploring the ways we have legislated the ownership of everything from body parts to gene sequences—and the particular ways in which our laws in these areas isolate nonnormative looks, minority cultures, and out-of-the-box thinkers. 
   
   
   
  At the heart of "Wrongful Birth" is a lawsuit in which a white couple who use a sperm bank sue when their child "comes out Black." And "Hot Cheeto Girl" examines the way that algorithms give rise to new predictive categories of human assortment, layered with market-inflected cages of assigned destiny. 
   
   
   
  The Miracle of the Black Leg offers a brilliant meditation on the tricky place where law, science, ethics, and cultural slippage collide.

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  Analytics the Right Way - A...

  Tim Wilson, Dr. Joe Sutherland

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  Organizations have more data at their fingertips than ever, and their ability to put that data to productive use should be a key source of sustainable competitive advantage. Yet, business leaders looking to tap into a steady and manageable stream of "actionable insights" often, instead, get blasted with a deluge of dashboards, chart-filled slide decks, and opaque machine learning jargon that leaves them asking, "So what?" 
   
   
   
  Analytics the Right Way is a guide for these leaders. It provides a clear and practical approach to putting analytics to productive use with a three-part framework that brings together the realities of the modern business environment with the deep truths underpinning statistics, computer science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The result: a pragmatic and actionable guide for delivering clarity, order, and business impact to an organization's use of data and analytics. 
   
   
   
  The book uses real-world examples from the authors' direct experiences—working inside organizations, as external consultants, and as educators—to empower the listener to put foundational analytical and statistical concepts to effective use in a business context.

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  PANDEMIC - The Great Influenza...

  Nathan Banks

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  Pandemic is an educational audiobook that explores the history of infectious diseases and their impact on societies around the world. 
  From the devastating influenza pandemic of 1918 to modern outbreaks of emerging viruses, humanity has repeatedly faced global health challenges that have shaped history, science, and public health systems. 
  This audiobook traces the evolution of major epidemics and pandemics, examining how diseases spread, how societies respond, and how scientific research has helped improve the understanding of infectious illnesses. 
  Listeners will explore historical outbreaks such as cholera, influenza, Ebola, and other global health events while gaining insight into the scientific and social factors that influence the spread of disease. 
  Inside this audiobook you will discover: 
  • The historical impact of major pandemics and epidemics 
   • The story of the 1918 influenza pandemic and its global consequences 
   • How diseases such as cholera and Ebola spread across populations 
   • The development of modern public health responses 
   • The role of science and research in understanding infectious diseases 
   • How pandemics have influenced modern society and global health policies 
  Designed for listeners interested in history, science, and global health, Pandemic provides an accessible overview of how infectious diseases have shaped our world.

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  Bright Kids Who Couldn't Care...

  Ellen Braaten, Sheryl Sandberg

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  “He’s so smart, but he’s no longer interested in school—or any 'offline' activities.” 
  “She used to love sports, but now she just mopes around.” 
  “My kid has turned into such a slacker!” 
  Sound familiar? If you're wondering how your bright, motivated little kid became such an unmotivated adolescent, you're not alone. Fortunately, help is at hand! Read by the author, this compassionate guide explains that kids who have lost the will to do anything (other than play video games) need more than simple encouragement or the “right” school, teacher, or coach to get back on track. Psychologist and learning expert Ellen Braaten helps you understand the myriad biological, psychological, and social factors that affect motivation, and get to know your own child's unique strengths, weaknesses, and personality traits better. Gain vital tools for tackling the motivational problems that are so pervasive today—and build a plan to boost your child’s confidence and engagement in life.

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  Under The Knife - Life Lessons...

  Liz O'Riordan

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  Dr Liz O’Riordan is a breast cancer surgeon who has battled against social, physical and mental challenges to practise at the top of her field. Under the Knife charts Liz’s incredible highs: performing like a couture dressmaker as she moulded and reshaped women’s breasts, while saving their lives; to the heart-breaking lows of telling ten women a day that they had cancer. 
   
  But this memoir is more than just an eye-opening look at the realities of training to be a female surgeon in a man’s world. In addition to this high-powered, high-pressured role, Liz faced her own breast cancer diagnosis, severe depression and suicidal thoughts, in tandem with commonplace sexual harassment and bullying. And by revealing how she coped when her life crashed around her, she demonstrates there is always hope.

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  The Apothecary of Belonging -...

  Alexis J. Cunningfolk

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  An invitation to reconnect to the land, our bodies, and our communities through the seasons, helping us find our way back home to our own embodied rhythms.

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